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Home engulfed in flames north of downtown Houston VIDEO: The Houston Fire Department battled a house fire that sent two people to an emergency room Wednesday morning. HFD first posted about the fire on X, formerly Twitter, at 7:10 a.m. This happened on Freeman Street, which is near the intersection of Quitman Street and the North Freeway. The extent of the injuries is unclear. There have been no reports of injuries to firefighters. The cause of the fire is under investigation but arson investigators say it's possible that lightning was a factor. Video captured by a neighbor showed the home engulfed in flames. The house was destroyed. KHOU-TV CBS 11 HOUSTON Family of 7 makes it out of house fire caused by lightning strike in Sugar Land area A family in the Sugar Land area is in shock after a lightning strike caused a fire Wednesday that heavily damaged their home and belongings. The family of seven spent the morning carrying trash bags full of the belongings they could salvage from the two-story home. The fire on Sugarbridge Trail between Old Richmond Road and West Bellfort Avenue started around 3:30 a.m. Ring video from a neighbor's house showed the lightning strike that caused it. "I heard the thunderstorm and everything and then suddenly the light in my room went out," Shehriz Lakhani told us. "I was the one who smelled smoke because it was directly coming in my room a lot." She quickly alerted other family members, including her grandmother who uses a wheelchair. "I came out and woke everybody up and then I realized it was coming from the attic," Shehriz said. KAGS-TV NBC 23 BRYAN First responders work to keep community safe during continuous rainfall in East Texas VIDEO: The continuous rainfall has caused more and more problems around East Texas. "So we are very saturated at the moment. We're currently getting more rain. We're expecting more rain. So conditions are not going to improve over the next several hours," said Smith County Emergency Management Coordinator Brandon Moore. The last three days have been an absolute downpour in Tyler and all throughout East Texas. "Our lakes, our streams, our rivers are at five-year highs in terms of water levels," said Eric Greaser, Fire Chief for Smith County Emergency Services District 2. The National Weather Service in Shreveport said as of Wednesday afternoon Tyler has seen 5.34 inches of rain since Monday evening. Higher storm totals are coming from the southeast corner of the county. There is a point in Bullard with 7.72 inches of rain. KYTX-TV CBS/CW+ 19 NACOGDOCHES Austin shed fire captured on camera, cause remains under investigation VIDEO/PHOTOS: Crews with the Austin Fire Department filmed the moment an abandoned shed crumbled in south Austin overnight. Firefighters responded to 4930 Manchester Circle at 12:54 a.m. The shed was fully engulfed in flames. Crews were able to extinguish the fire. No injuries were reported. The cause is still under investigation. KEYE-TV CBS 42 AUSTIN PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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VIDEO: California pallet yard fire forces school, road closures A multi-acre pallet yard fire with 20 to 50 foot flames near Tracy lit up the early morning sky on Thursday. Since about 2 a.m., fire crews with the South San Joaquin County Fire Authority and several other surrounding agencies have been responding to a fire located in a 6-acre pallet yard along Grant Line Road. Fire Chief Randall Bradley said that when the first units arrived on scene they found the fire to be well involved and within a matter of minutes the fire was elevated to a three alarm. One of the major challenges for responding crews was the absence of a municipal water supply at the pallet yard, requiring water tenders to be brought in. Bradley said that six water tender were called on to provide the needed fire retardant for the 12 fire engines and three ladder trucks that responded to the fire. KTXL-TV FOX 40 SACRAMENTO New York City is trying to stop deadly e-bike fires with these 3 approaches PHOTOS: New York City is trying to address the deadly threat of e-bike battery fires in various ways. City leaders have passed new laws, increased fines, initiated more aggressive regulation, and supported pilot projects with businesses and nonprofits. That's because some cheap, retrofitted lithium-ion batteries for e-bikes and e-scooters don't meet safety standards and are dangerously explosive. When the batteries ignite, they cause fast-moving, toxic fires that officials and experts say are difficult to extinguish. New York is considered an epicenter of this new public safety problem. Its density leads workers to charge e-bikes inside apartment buildings and the city's large population drives high demand for delivery services, according to public safety experts. Official data shows the rate of fires from lithium-ion batteries in the city has decreased so far this year. GOTHAMIST In 1877, 21 died, but 2 heroes emerged from a six-story hotel fire in Missouri PHOTOS: In the years after the Civil War, the finest lodging downtown was the six-story Southern Hotel, at Fourth and Walnut streets. It took up most of the block where the Stadium East Garage stands today. Next door was Tony Faust's Oyster Bar, the city's best restaurant. In those days, hotel fires were rightly to be dreaded. The Southern proudly claimed to have a new "annunciator," an early heat-sensing alarm. Shortly after 1 a.m. on April 11, 1877, the first alarms were screams from guests and employees who saw flames climb the freight elevator from the basement. Most of the 300 guests escaped, but the whirling blaze killed 21 guests and workers and collapsed the Southern into a jagged, smoking pile. Among the dead were eight who jumped. Fighting the fire gave St. Louis two genuine heroes. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH - METERED SITE Ford recalls nearly 43,000 SUVs due to gas leaks that can cause fires, but remedy won't fix leaks Ford is recalling nearly 43,000 small SUVs because gasoline can leak from the fuel injectors onto hot engine surfaces, increasing the risk of fires. But the recall remedy does not include repairing the fuel leaks. The recall covers certain Bronco Sport SUVs from the 2022 and 2023 model years, as well as Escape SUVs from 2022. All have 1.5-liter engines. Ford says in documents filed with U.S. safety regulators that fuel injectors can crack, and gasoline or vapor can accumulate near ignition sources, possibly touching off fires. Dealers will install a tube to let gasoline flow away from hot surfaces to the ground below the vehicle. They'll also update engine control software to detect a pressure drop in the fuel injection system. ABC NEWS PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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